Dimension 459

Beedok

Beedok

Falastur said:
From a purely British-biased standpoint, I'm glad the Empire separated the wheat from the chaff by allowing to go free all the dominions and territories who wanted independence from the Empire. Hopefully in this rather extremely socially turbulent TL, it should give the Empire a level of security against inside agitation that most countries can only dream of.
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Yes the two UKs are bastions of stability in this turbulent world, though much of Europe and the Americas have settled down. Thus the UKs are turning out to be the top players in the world of D-459, especially in the new frontier of space.

Falastur said:
Interesting, though. Panslavia rises again after being comprehensively beaten only a few years ago. Do you intend this to be the dying remnants of a philosophy which now knows it can only exist in Slavic territory, or is this the first sign that Panslavism is actually an international agent of change which, like Communism OTL, is unlikely to cease to be a major global influence (or threat, depending on your standpoint) for centuries to come?
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In the case of the Technocratic occupied states it's a case of extreme martial law as the Germans aren't exactly friendly to those who had tried to kill them all, especial as those western Slav states were the most fanatical during the war. In the former Russia it's more simply that the Panslavists have the best connections left over for a rebellion and they are much lest ideological.
 
Beedok

Beedok

1998 saw the world descend further into paranoia. The Fourth Republic was in rough shape with the Fifth Republic capturing Paris, marching up La Boulevard De La Triomphe, which was the route the both Dalgiers had taken to liberate the city. They abandoned there Russian territory to anarchy, while they began to lose more territory to pro MEU rebels. Africa saw the formation of the League of African Kingdoms, ther spread of Nasoism and the tightening of control by many leaders in fear of riots spreading to there lands. Meanwhile the Fifth Republic spread it's control over all of French Africa (Algeria being a seperate district). Meanwhile Naso rebellions spread to the Holy Lamadom of Tibet, the most isolationist nation in the world (similar to OTL North Korea). Meanwhile the Emperor of China fled to Korea, fearing assasination attempts by rebels. In Europe the Germans pushed full force into Czechia, Slovakia and Poland, allowing Lithuania to go free.
On a more cheerful note two noteable figures rose to prominence in politics. One was Adolf Bismarck II, a grandson of the Prussian hero, married Princess Helga of Germany, pushing the Bismarcks into being the Royal Family of Germany. At the wedding the King-Emperor of the UKBJ and the King-Tsar of the UKCLR discussed world affairs, leaving the fait of the world to be decided over some champagne by the two leaders of the world. Together the came up with numerous theories on how to bring peace to the world, at one point nearly deciding to create an artificial cold war, bu in the end they decided to push of a international conference. however the formation of this international organization would have to wait a year.
The other leader rising to prominence was Yilmaz Huinoglu, son a Turkish veteran from the 1939 war with the UKCLR. While controversial as the first muslim president of the FRA his election beconed a new age of closeness with the FRA's allies the MEU. One of his more controversial moves was banning the Naso party from federal elections.
As for science the Partical Collider in Nunavut allowed the Canadian, Louisianian and Russian scientists to create microscopic wormholes, pushing D-459 up to a class three civilization.
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Falastur

Interesting how the two United Kingdoms are now playing the world's political circles like a chess board. I look forward to seeing how they manage the end of this phase of the world's development, when the revolutions have all succeeded or died and there are definite new powers to assess and contend with rather than insubstantial shadows that might arise on a wave of popular support or might fail entirely but can't be entirely predicted or communicated with until they've done one or the other.

Hopefully this is just a passing phase, but then I have a natural disposition against revolutionary movements.
 

Saepe Fidelis

Quick question: you referred to technocratic monarchies- how is that possible? Surely in a technocracy is incongruous with monarchism and hereditary rule? Or are they elected monarchies?
 
Beedok

Beedok

Saepe Fidelis said:
Quick question: you referred to technocratic monarchies- how is that possible? Surely in a technocracy is incongruous with monarchism and hereditary rule? Or are they elected monarchies?
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The Monarchy has little actual power, there role is mostly ceremonial. Infact the Germans only have a monarchy as they needed UKCLR aid money at the end of the World War. The elected officials with the real power are a technocracy, at least in the dominant technocratic party.
 

Saepe Fidelis

Beedok said:
The Monarchy has little actual power, there role is mostly ceremonial. Infact the Germans only have a monarchy as they needed UKCLR aid money at the end of the World War. The elected officials with the real power are a technocracy, at least in the dominant technocratic party.
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Ah, that makes sense then.
 
Beedok

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In 1999 the two UKs decided that they wanted peace for the start of the new millenium, and used there combined power to make it happen. They started by presuring the various faction of the Chinese Civil War into accepting borders based upon what each group controlled. They then invaded the rising force of panslavism in Asia and Europe, helping the German offensive in Europe while invading the formerly French occupied central Russia. They also presured the Fourth Republic into accepting the independance of the Fifth Republic of France, the National Workers Republic of France, and the French Royalist Army. This final group led to some discomfort for the UKCLR as they had only recently abandoned their claim to France, so in the end the King only added the title of Lord of Greater Bretagne to his title. In response to a viewed threat, Dalgiers had the Fourth Republic join the MEU in a hopes of ressurrecting the economy. The MEU feared allowing this massive bankrupt state to join them and merely entered into a special trade relation, basically using Indian cheap labour for their manufacturing needs. This partnership thus lead to a major boost in the MEU-FRA space agency, which was convinced it needed to equal the British-Japanese might.
The two UKs then istituted the International Court Organisation, a body designed not only to maintain law for people, but also nations preventing any nation from going to war. With the might of the two UKs, Korea, the Technocrats and Brazil behind it the rest of the world soon followed suite. The court saw it's first success with the Naso rebellion in Tibet, which finally opened the country up, by keeping the Chinese Nationalists and Nasos from going to war over the revolution. They also succeded at keeping a minour border clash near Nigeria from causing a Naso-African Kingdoms war. The only questionable move by the ICO was the removal of the Human Cloning Ban Treaty which had been one of the few truly international treaties that existed before the ICO, however it was reasoned that Space Work was too dangerous for normal humans, yet to complicated for macines, thus mildly modified Human clones found themselves sent to the space colonies to conduct dangerous work. This of course laid the stage for the future clone rebellion.
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Falastur

Very curious. I haven't seen France balkanise this late in a TL...perhaps ever. And now clones, that's definitely a first in my (admittedly mild) experience here. I must admit that your last sentence left me thinking of Star Wars...
 

codger

The two UKs are strong enough to force their will on these other empires? Will there be any ill feelings and lashing-out later?
 
Beedok

Beedok

UCS political map, slightly modified to fit this dimension. The British Japanese royalty has far less power than most others so is placed between multi-partied and constitutional monarchy.
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